The Lesson of Caroline Up and down and side to side she sprints without fatigue. The match can last for hours; the Dane will scarcely shine a bead of sweat or fail to stretch and meet the ball right on the sweet spot. With those metronomic swings, Wozniacki can wear down the stalwart...
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Dublin, 1971 MARY QUINN IS ABOUT TO WIN the national varsity women’s title. Again. She is a dominant woman on the court with dominant thighs. She has a penetrating forehand and an incredible short game. The tennis world is decades from the first graphite composite racket and therefore in the height of...
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ANDY RODDICK RETIRED FROM PROFESSIONAL tennis last week, making good on his promise to quit at the end of his US Open run. Rather than focus on any specific aspect of Roddick’s career – that stuff will be covered by those more knowledgable than myself, if it hasn’t happened already – I’ll instead talk...
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How Hollywood, Hitler, a gay Nazi poster boy, and US OPEN tennis champion, Andy Murray, star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German tennis star Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm, or simply, Gottfried von Cramm, won the French Open....
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And with that the Labour Day weekend is upon us. I hope like the Barnstormer crew, y’all are wearing the good goddamn out of your whites for the next three days before we pack those bright slacks up until Victoria Day. I’m gonna miss my eggshell chinos something fierce. This week the intrepid Andrew...
Read more →What did we learn this week? Well, that Kerry Fraser and figure skating don’t own a monopoly on bad officiating, that NBC has become their own unwatchable sitcom, the Second Amendment kills people, and that hate and ignorance don’t know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. Darren Bifford, author of Wedding in Fire Country,...
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